Portable winch.



No. 644,870. Patented Mar. 6, 1900.

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PORTABLE WINCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 644,870, dated March 6,1900.

Application filed September 12, 1899, erial No. 730,282. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. ROBERTS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Mitchellv ille, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa,have invented a new and useful Portable Winch, of which the following isa specification.

One object is to provide a simple, strong, and durable winch that willstand upright when not in use and that is specially adapted to beapplied to the end of a wagon-box for hoisting the box or to afence-post for stretching fence-wire in such a manner that arms or:branches extending laterally from the vertical centers of the ends ofthe frame will prevent tilting or lateral motion of' the winch whenpower is applied as required in practical use.

A further object is to reduce friction and wear of the rope relative tothe frame as it is wound off and on the drum.

My invention consists in the frame and arrangement and combination ofoperative parts therewith, as hereinafter set forth,'pointed out in myclaim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a perspective view of the frame adapted for combining operativemechanism therewith to produce a simple portable winch andto serve as anextended bearing to engage the end of a wagon-box, a fence-post, orother object. Fig. 2 shows my invention applied to the end of awagon-box, as required for elevating the box,when the rope connectedwith the winch is also connected With some elevated stationary object.Fig. 3 shows my winch detachably connected with a fence-post to draw andstretch Wire, as required in mak ing and repairing wire fences.

The metal frame is preferably malleable iron formed in a moldand mayvary in size and weight, as desired. The two mating sides A and A arestraight and uniform, and each has lateral downwardly-inclined andtapering branches B and B and a journahbearing O at the juncture of thebranches adapted for mounting a rotatable shaft therein, and each end ofthe frame is flat and adapted to engage and rest securely upon oragainsta fencepost or similar stationary object adapted to serve as abase upon which to operate my in.- vention advantageously for variouspurposes.

The outer ends of the branches are connected by flat curved cross-bars Dand D and at the center of each of said bars is an aperture forextending a rope or chain therethrough.

F is a cross-bar connecting the top ends of the straight parallel sidesA and A It is flat-faced and curved laterally and provided with anaperture H at its center for the passage of a rope J, that is fixed to arotatable shaft K, that has journals on its ends fitted in thecoinciding bearings C in the frame. By curving the cross-bar F the ropeextended through the aperture H and fixed to the shaft K will beretained straight/in line with the exteriorof the drum or shaft and willnot bind and wear by friction in the aperture through which it is drawnwhile being Wound on and off the drum or shaft K. A ratchet-wheel Z isfixed on one end of the shaft K, and a springactuated pawl m is attachedto the branch B of the frame to engage the ratchet-wheel, as required tothereby lock the shaft K. A crank-handle r is placed on the end of theshaft K for rotating the shaft and operating the winch by hand. Ropes sand s are fas tened in the apertn res in the cross-bars D and D andadapted to be detachably connected with the corners of a wagon-box, asshown in Fig. 2, or in any suitable way as required for hoisting thewagon-box.

In Fig. 3 a chain 3', provided with a hook 8, is substituted for theropes s and .9. (Shown in Fig. 2.)

J 2 is a clutch device fixed to the end of the rope J for detachablyfastening a fence-wire J 3 thereto, as required to stretch the wire.

Having thus described the construction and application of my inventionto different objeots for different purposes, its practical op erationand utility will be readily understood by persons familiar with the artto which it pertains, and

What I therefore claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patenttherefor, is

A portable winch comprising a frame composed of two vertical parallelsides having branches extending laterally and in opposite directions attheir lower ends and journalbearings at the juncture of said branches,the branches connected at their outer ends and the tops of the parallelsides connected by a cross-bar curved in a horizontal plane so that itscenter lies directly above the edge of the the shaft or journal extendedoutside of the drum, said bar having an aperture to admit frame, allarranged and combined for the pur- 10 and direct the passage of a roperelative to poses stated.

the exterior of a drum, a drum or rotatable shaft mounted in the saidhearings in the frame, a ratchet-Wheel fixed to the end of the shaft, aspring-actuated pawl attached to the frame and a crank-handle on the endof CHARLES H. ROBERTS.

Witnesses:

ANDREW ENGLE, THOMAS G. ORWIG.

